I recently built Alfresco from the Subversion HEAD and noticed that Labs 3.2 seems to configure its file-servers quite differently. The instructions at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Configuration no longer seem to apply. Does anyone know if documentation exists that explains the changes? I'm running Labs 3.2 _Preview2_dev build r-1.
In Labs 3.1 and earlier, making changes to file servers like CIFS, FTP, NFS, were configured in the "file-servers-custom.xml" file in the extension directory in the classpath (i.e. alfresco/extension). The code in Labs 3.2 seems to ignore the file-servers-custom.xml file and instead reads file-server configurations from the classpath directory "alfresco/extension/subsystems/fileServers/default/default". This change caught me by surprise and took me a little while to figure out it was the cause of my CIFS server breaking – and the FTP server being started using IPV6, which got me a protocol exception on my Windows dev box.
In the 3.2 way of doing things, one improvement seems to be you can now define an override "file-servers.properties" by adding a properties file to the new "subsystems" extension path. I'm still in the dark about the use of the "default/default" directories under the fileServers subsystem extension directory. Anyone know their meaning when configuring Alfresco file servers? The configuration path seems to be set in the class org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory, with the first "default" subdirectory being the Type Name and the 2nd default sub-subdirectory being the ID of the "fileServers" subsystem category. I have yet to figure out where the Type Name and ID come from and whether they *should* be set to a value other than "default".
Has anyone seen documentation on the new file-servers configuration for Labs 3.2? Thanks.
Apologies, the IPv6 setting was left on from some testing - i've turned it off again and will be correct in the next nightly build or current SVN HEAD codeline.
Thank you for updating the file-servers.properties files in HEAD. I noticed you changed the old file in HEAD/root/projects/repository/config/alfresco as well as the active (real?) one in HEAD/root/projects/repository/config/alfresco/subsystems/fileServers/default. As far as I can tell, the "file-servers.properties" file in the …/config/alfresco directory is no longer used. The Ant script still deploys it to WEB-INF/classes/alfresco, along with the file "file-servers.xml", but I believe neither of these files is read during Alfresco configuration at startup.
If I'm wrong, I'd appreciate the correction. If I'm right, perhaps these two (what I believe to be outdated) configuration files should be removed from the alfresco.war so as not to confuse other users of the Labs 3.2 preview version.
For what it's worth, I updated the http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Configuration to signal readers that it no longer applies to the upcoming Labs 3.2 version, and to give a pointer to the correct configuration directories.
